Source: Police Search Fountain Pond For Possible Murder Weapon

Investigators searched Willow Springs Ponds in Fountain this week, possibly for a gun used in the double homicides in Castle Rock, one source said.

A reliable source told TARGET 13 Investigates that the Colorado Springs Fire Department dive Team assisted detectives in the search.

For two days, the dive team searched the pound. The Colorado Springs Fire Department confirmed the dive team was searching for evidence but wouldn?t say for which case.

The Douglas County district attorney, who is now handling all media calls on the homicide investigation, wouldn?t confirm if the search team was looking for the gun, a model 1911.

TARGET 13 Investigates first reported on Tuesday the gun was sold to Michah Woody by a friend in the auto industry.

Woody, along with Joshiah Sher and Matthew Planke, are accused of killing Amara Wells and her brother-in-law, Robert Rafferty, in February.

Wells? husband, Christopher, was in jail at the time of the murders, but police think he may have hired his friends to kill his wife.

The couple, who are from Monument, were having marital problems. Amara reportedly feared her husband and moved in with her in-laws to escape her husband.

Christopher Wells? ex-girlfriend is also claiming she feared for her life and that Wells? hired a man to beat her up.

In an interview with KMGH-TV in Denver, the woman, who didn?t want to be identified, claimed Wells was psychotic and she was surprised this didn?t happen earlier.

The station uncovered 1997 court records from Virginia showing a judge ordered Wells to stay away from the woman. Until now, she says, she had not heard his name for more than 10 years.

“When I heard your message, and you mentioned Chris Wells, the first thing that came to my mind was, ‘Oh, God. What has he done? Who has he hurt??? she said.

She said when she tried to break up with Wells, he became angry and she feared from her safety.

?He wouldn?t take ?no? for an answer, and then one nightmare after the other,? the woman said. ?He would call my house; I don’t know how many times a day. I have seven tapes with hours of voicemails he would leave, that I wound up giving to the detective.?

Wells was arrested in Fairfax, Va., and accused of trying to persuade a man to break into the woman?s home and ?commit assault and battery,? according to court records.

Court documents showed that Wells wanted it to look like a burglary. The 1997 indictment against Wells read: ?for the felony of soliciting to commit a felony.?

The station also reported that Wells had also been charged with misdemeanor stalking and trespassing in connection with the 1997 incident.

“He’d be at my front door, banging on my front door, [yelling] ‘You don’t know what you’re doing. It’s not over until I say it’s over,” the woman said.

“He couldn’t take the breakup. He couldn’t stand the fact that he wasn’t the one doing the breaking up.”

According to the court records, the key witness in the case was a man Wells tried to ?command, entreat, or attempt to persuade to enter the dwelling house of [the victim] with the intent to commit assault and battery.?

The witness would not show up for court and apparently refused to testify against Wells, so the court ordered the felony case dismissed.

Wells was ultimately found guilty of misdemeanor trespassing and ordered to stay away from the woman and her family.

Before that court order, the woman explained that Wells would sit, for hours, in a parking lot across from her home and watch for her.

?I was never home alone and if I was I sat in the dark. I didn?t want him to know I was home,? she said, describing Wells as ?very aggressive.?

She told KMGH-TV that Wells worked at a Chippendale?s and had a problem with drugs. She said that to the best of her memory she said, his drug of choice in 1997 was crystal meth.

Friends who spoke with TARGET 13 Investigates also felt Wells had a drug problem.